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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Originally posted by Mark Padgett


On the topic of players asking questions, am I the only
one this happens to? As L administering the first FT,
holding out 2 fingers, or 1 & 1, or 1 finger, say loudly
"Two shots (or 1, or 1 & 1), hold your positions (or let
it hit, or on the release)". Then as you back out of the
lane, some bright bulb will ask "Hey ref, how many shots?"

And I thought I was the one and only Tigger (apologies to Disneyland again). That happens to me all the time. Another one that BktBallRef mentioned he has not seen in a while is the plane violation. I don't have enough fingers & toes to count the times I have called that. Of course being of the female gender I get many girls games and you can call it all night on freshman girls. What I find humorous is that EVERY TIME I give the inbounder the ball I run my hand up and down the plane, look at the defender and inbounder (even though it doesn't apply to the inbounder), and I say "stay straight up, do not come across" Then two seconds later the defense throws her arms across, then I give a verbal warning to the team (recorded in the sorebook), hand the ball back to the inbounder and one second later...GUESS WHAT???? defense does it again. Now I believe I might be wrong in issuing a T for delay of game this time but I do it anyway because if they are silly enough to do the opposite of what you just told them not to do then they are surely not going to know the rule on T's.
Correct me if I'm wrong....I'm just thinking that they actually have to make contact with the ball or player, but on the other hand each time they cross the line I have to tweet and that's just a waste of time.